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Iraq

April 13, 2007 on 2:22 pm | In Main |

Could the Kurds Kill Iraq?
By: Stephen J. Morgan, Wed Apr 11th, 2007
Kirkuk and the Kurdish borderlands - Iraq’s “Bosnia.”
The Kurdish autonomous north has long been held out as an example of peace and security for the rest of Iraq. Today, however, it threatens to become a source of its greatest instability and an issue, which might tear Iraq apart. In particular, the question of the status of the mixed city of Kirkuk threatens to ignite civil war tensions that will reverberate throughout the country and possibly threaten the intervention of outside powers, especially Turkey.

Truck Driving in Iraq: You Think It’s Tough Here?
By: Allen Smith, Mon Mar 5th, 2007
Truck driving undoubtedly has its challenges here in the United States. Crowded highways, not enough parking areas and long hours are just a few of the problems drivers face on a daily basis. I was enjoying a meal at a Petro Truck Stop the other day when I heard another driver complaining about the food. It appeared that he felt that some of the items on the buffet were not hot enough. I agreed that some of the entrees could have been warmer, but I really didn’t care. I was just enjoying the meal.

Iraq: The wild, weird and ferocious Counter-Surge
By: Stephen J. Morgan, Wed Jan 31st, 2007
Monitoring Iraq is now like watching a weather map of the Mid-West in tornado season. From every, unexpected direction all hell breaks loose with an unpredictability and novelty that we haven’t quite witnessed before. In the madness and complexity that is Iraq, the US surge is provoking a counter-surge of exceptional clashes, which are wilder, weirder and fiercer than in the past.

Lost on the Couch - the psychological reasons for the defeat in Iraq
By: Stephen J. Morgan, Wed Jan 24th, 2007
In many ways the decisive factors which lost the war in Iraq for the US are the moral and psychological questions. This has two dimensions - firstly the cause for which the American troops believe they are fighting and the manner in which it has been transmitted; and the way in which the insurgents view their cause against that of their internal rivals, as well as the aims of America. Secondly, is the impasse arising from conservatism of thought on the part of the political and military leaaders.